The sun beat down on Izuku as he completed his 1000th push-up, vaguely hearing Tora in the background calling out orders. As it turned out, most people were unwilling to train with the massive Pussycat after seeing how hard he pushed Izuku, causing the Greenette to be the sole contender for the trainer's attention. He had never felt so strained, not even when he was cleaning up Dagobah or fighting the League of Villains. The burly man had a talent for motivating people while not encouraging them it seemed.

Izuku kept his head up high though, watching some of his classmate's progress as he mindlessly continued to do push-ups. Tsuyu was contentedly climbing up and down a cliff, Iida seemed to be circling the entire training ground and Todoroki had a whole clearing to himself, making rings of fire and ice up to 30 ft big. Tora looked down at his watch and grunted, looking down at Izuku. "9am, 3 hours of work, good enough time for a break. Let's go and grab some breakfast, double time maggot!"

Izuku sighed in relief, breathing heavily as he massaged his arms to remove some of the tension as he jogged with him over to where the other Pussycats were set up. Pixie-bob tilted her head back to look at the two and smiled coyly. "You look like shit, Tora put you through the wringer?"

The boy looked at her with deadpan eyes before going over to where the food was all kept, grabbing a banana from a fruit bowl. Tora grabbed a loaf of bread, eating it as if it was nothing while looking over the rest of the training group. Leaning against a box Izuku slowly ate his meal, looking out over the class as he felt his muscles decompress. Aizawa went over to him and leaned up next to him, grabbing an apple for himself while saying. "How's training?"

Izuku looked at him with questioning eyes, wondering why the teacher was being so sociable suddenly. Then, as if at once, he realised it all with the sight of one person smiling at the tired man. Mandalay was dreamily looking over at the teacher behind his back, and Aizawa was vehemently trying to ignore her. Izuku smiled down at the ground while saying. "Good Sir, yourself?"

He shrugged while taking a bite. "1-A has honestly been doing better then I had hoped in the beginning. Anyways, I want you to begin training with Ragdoll."

Izuku looked at him quizzically, and he elaborated. "Some students aren't quite… pushing themselves. I'll ask him to go and 'motivate' them, Ragdoll can take over your training."

Before Izuku could say another word, Aizawa got up and walked over to Tora and said a couple words. The burly man nodded and walked over to Jirou and Mina, barking out orders after demolishing his loaf. The greenette heard a cough to the side of him and turned to see Ragdoll standing there with a massive smile on her face, her head tilted to the side. "Hey there! Ready to go?"

He nodded, throwing the peel of the banana into the provided bin while following the green haired heroine out into the forest. They walked for about 5 minutes until they reached a large clearing, with a small waterfall making a stream that cut through the centre. Ragdoll deftly jumped up onto a large stone and laid down, languidly stretching out and yawning. Izuku looked at her curiously as she turned her head to him and said. "I'm not really that good at physical stuff and all the punchy-punchy, but I do know how to chill! I thought it would be a good idea for you to meditate for a while, sort stuff out you know?"

Izuku blinked at the odd form of training, before nodding and getting to the traditional cross-legged position. Ragdoll laughed at him before motioning for him to get up. "No, not like that kind of meditating! Go and find a place where you feel comfortable, try a tree branch or something."

Abashed, Izuku got up and began to try a couple different positions before settling up in a tree-branch. Ragdoll nodded at his choice and said loudly up to him. "I like that place too. Okay now, think about an issue in your life, maybe an arguement or a piece of homework or something. Just think about it, don't stress or nothing, just think about it. When you're done, come down here and we'll talk about it."

Izuku nodded, closing his eyes and leaning back against the tree, letting the sun tickle his face. He decided on something that had been in the back of his mind for a while, ever since Tsuyu had kissed his cheek at the poolside, and that was how he viewed himself. Kacchan had always pushed him into the dirt, and despite Uraraka's encouraging words and Iida's declarations about how he felt he was a model hero, the feelings of inadequacy never left him.

He kept on thinking about that, and how he could work towards not feeling so bad. Before he knew it, he felt as if he was just as good as Bakugo from a logical standpoint. Both of them had great quirks, both were driven to be the best, both wanted to prove themselves to the world that they were great. Snapping out of his reverie he sat up and rubbed his eyes, looking down at Ragdoll. She was smiling up at him as if she had known when he was going to awake, still laid down across the rock. He dropped down from the tree and walked over to her, finally brushing out the remaining sleep from his eyes.

She sat up and patted the spot of rock next to her in an invitation, and he clambered up to sit next to her on the stone. Their proximity was slightly uncomfortable for Izuku, but he ignored it as she seemed to. Ragdoll smiled at him and asked. "So, what was your problem?"

He gulped before admitting. "My attitude to myself, I guess."

Ragdoll nodded and smiled, shifting over and leaning on her hand. "Yhea, I sensed there were some problems with that when I saw you training alone. You feel alone right? Like you don't deserve to be there with your friends because you aren't putting in 100%, and you can never seem to reach that number because someone else is always trying harder?"

Izuku gasped, and she smiled still. Those notions were unknown even to him, but they were spot on when he heard them. "Y-Yeah, you're exactly right. Kacchan was always better than me, more driven and strong, but now I'm trying to put in my best but it's still not enough. I feel like I'm always reaching, but nobody can understand what I need, not even myself. How did you know?"

Ragdoll pointed to her eyes. "Side effect of my quirk, I'm more perceptive than the average kitten so I aced my Psychology class. I kinda saw myself in you a bit, that's why I asked Manda to ask Shota to ask you to train with me."

Izuku blinked in surprise as she began to lean further back, getting dangerously close to the edge of the stone as she looked up into the sky, small glimmers welling up in her eyes. "Yhea, I used to be in the same position as you. Search is a great quirk, sure, but I used to feel inadequate compared to the other Pussycats. Tora could save people with his body and get them out of a rockslide, Pix can literally move the earth, Manda can help talk to the survivors to calm them down and I can… look at people. Heroic quirk right? I feel redundant 'cause the others would be fine without be honest, I've never even told the others about this. You're the first person to know about it."

Izuku interrupted at that point. "What are you talking about!? Search could be used to find weaknesses in rock faces or determine weaknesses in quirks and not to mention that side effect! You could talk someone down from suicide, or even help reform villains! Don't say that your quirk isn't hero material, because it could be the best quirk in the world to someone! And after seeing how enthusiastic you can be, the Pussycats wouldn't have half the appeal without you there!"

They sat in silence after that little outburst, Ragdoll's eyes went wide as she looked at the determined boy in front of her. Slowly, she began to cry. At first it was a couple of tears, but eventually she was full blown sobbing into her arm. Izuku panicked, thinking that he had somehow offended her with his declaration, before she jumped at him and hugged him. "Thanks Izuku! I'll cherish this quirk from now on, thank you!"

They sat there like that for a while, Ragdoll wiping her tears on his shirt as he nervously stroked her hair. Eventually she finished crying and got up, still on top of him. She checked her watch and saw that it was about 11am by that point. "Well… We still got ages before we gotta break for dinner. Wanna keep at it?"

Izuku nodded and got up, dropping Ragdoll on her ass before offering her his hand. She got back up with his help and clambered back into her position on the stone while saying. "Okay, find a new place and a new problem. We'll keep going until there's nothing left floating around in that noggin of your's."

He mock saluted before lying down next to the stream and began to think about his responsibility to All Might and the legacy of One for All. This cycle continued a couple more times, with Izuku editing out some of the secrets between him and All Might for safety reasons. The two just seemed to click, Izuku finding her company oddly refreshing while Ragdoll enjoyed just sitting down and putting to use a skill she hadn't used in ages. The day had turned to afternoon, and Ragdoll looked at her watch and pouted. "Well, that's all for today Izu-Kitty."

She was about to continue before she realised what she had said, blushing profusely. She was about to apologise before Izuku smiled and said. "Well, that was fun Ragdoll. Let's head back. Also, I kinda like the nickname."

Ragdoll sighed in relief and smiled brighter than the sun at him. Falling in step with him she seemed to notice something as she held out her hair to compare with his. "Heyyy, we have the same shade of hair kinda! You could pass as my lil bro!"

Izuku seemed to notice the slight similarity too and smiled shyly. "We kinda do have the same hair colour. By the way, do you know what happened with Mr Aizawa and Mandalay?"

Ragdoll nodded and looped her arms around his neck, resting her chin on his head. "Yhea, but it's probably not a good idea to tell you right now Izu. How 'bout this? You come over to my room tonight and we'll have a sleepover! C'mon it'll be awesome, I'll even invite Pixie and we can watch a movie!"

Despite the many ethical problems associated with it, Izuku crumbled when he saw her hopeful face looking down at him. "*Sigh* Sure, meet you at the dining room?"

She cheered, nodded and separated as they entered the main clearing again, seeing everyone gathered around the boxes of supplies and the hummer. Aizawa was stood next to Vlad, Class-B's teacher, and Mandalay and noticed the two approaching. "Midoriya, Ragdoll, that's everybody. Okay classes, you're going to be cooking for yourselves tonight. Everything you need is in these crates and the cooking station is over there. Enjoy."

There was a collective groan from the class, excluding Izuku who remembered being lucid enough last night to hear Mandalay telling them that it was happening. Getting to work, they all began to unload crates, light fires and chop up ingredients. There was a generally jovial mood in the air, with both Class A and B sharing stories of their time at U.A. Izuku was with Iida and Todoroki as they all prepared the sauce for the curry they were making. Iida was the one to ask. "So Midoriya, what kind of training with Ragdoll did you do? You went quite far away, I didn't even see you on my run."

Izuku paused in his stirring, wondering how to describe the experience of meditating with Ragdoll. "Well, it was kind of a psycho-analysis. She picked apart my brain and we talked about how I could progress."

The two looked at him in slight surprise. Iida continued. "interesting, I didn't take her for the councillor type."

Izuku smiled to himself. "Yeah, she was full of surprises. She really is quite nice though, let's get this sauce over to the others."

They brought the sauce over to the main cooking station, not noticing Tsuyu listening from the side. She was quite interested in Izuku's training with Ragdoll, wondering about how the boy had spent most of his day and more particularly who he was with. She was slightly underwhelmed by the amount of information she had received from her eavesdropping but resigned herself to asking him about it later. Eventually the meal was put together and they all gathered around the tables to eat.

The festivities continued for most of the hour, everyone laughing and having a good time as they feasted on the fruit of their labour. Izuku was content with nibbling on his food, not quite as ravenous as the rest of his class after the less intensive training he went through. What he noticed however, was Aizawa and Mandalay speaking in worried tones. That was when he realised that little boy that was glaring at them all was missing from Mandalay's side. Aizawa finally nodded to her and rushed off, jumping up and into one of the trees. It was obvious that something was wrong, but Izuku didn't think it his place to intervene.

He finished his food, realising that most people already had but were still sitting at the table while talking. Getting up he took Todoroki and Iida's plates, with a word of thanks from the boys, and brought them over to the washing station. As he was cleaning them off he was joined by Tsuyu, who began to wash her own dishes in the adjacent sink. "Hey Izuku, how was training Kero?"

Izuku grinned at her, placing a bowl on a drying rack. "Good thanks, your tongue alright? It must have been put under a lot of strain today."

She made a show of letting it flop out of her mouth, completely lifeless. "No kidding Kero, Mr Aizawa's training was absolutely killer. Apparently, he wants me to be able to be able to spit poison by the end of the week. What are you doing with yours Kero?"

He told her what he told Iida, that it was just Psycho-Analysis. She seemed pretty put off but kept her head high as they finished off the dishes. They noticed that their actions had spurred most of the others into action, bringing their plates to the sinks and beginning to wash them. Before they could get swamped they both weaved their way through the crowd, bumping into each other a few times until they managed to get away from them.

Tsu continued to make small talk as they walked over to a clearing, both taking a seat on a log that was embedded in the ground. Mandalay had announced to all of them during dinner that they were supposed to stay around after dinner for an announcement. The next half an hour just consisted with casual conversation and laughing at the antics of some of their classmates as they muddled through the chore.

Eventually they were all finished and gathered around in the clearing. The sun had set by that point, leaving the only light to be the moonlight and the distant floodlights from the HQ. Pixiebob went into the middle of the clearing, accompanied by Tora and Mandalay but strangely without Ragdoll. The blue garbed woman cleared her throat before announcing. "Alright everyone! This is going to be the first competition of the week between Class A and B! Every night for the week, we'll be doing a challenge that will require all of your class to work together against the other, and this night is… The Test of Courage!"

Everyone leaned forward, attention peaking as Mandalay took over. "Class B will be stationed throughout the forest along the trail, and will be allowed to use their quirks. Class A will be going through the trail in groups of two. After all groups have gone, you will rotate around and Class A will be the scaring team. The winning class will be the one who…"

Tora cut her off with a roaring proclamation. "Whoever makes the other class piss their pants the most!"

Mandalay sighed before nodding and pulling out a box with what appeared to be small ballots in it. "Everybody in Class A come forward and take a number. Whoever has the same number as someone else is in a pair."

Before anybody could come forward to take their number, they heard a rustling in the bush. They all turned to see Aizawa holding Kota by the scruff of his shirt, looking thoroughly dishevelled as the young boy fussed around. "Here's your nephew Mandalay. Anyways, Sero, Sato, Kirishima, Ashido and Kaminari you're coming with me. You're all taking remedial lessons to make up for failing the exam."

The five were about to protest before they saw Aizawa's face of displeasure and quietly followed along towards the building. Mandalay coughed to clear the tension and said. "Well, once you've set off, you have to go around the entire trail to make it a clean run. Ragdoll is positioned right at the mid-point, so you will have to obtain a tag with your name on it from her before coming back."

Everyone walked forward and grabbed their lot, unfolding the paper to reveal their number. Izuku looked around to see that everybody paired up, realising with a hint of dread that there was an odd number of people. He caught Tsu's eye and she gave him a sympathetic eye from the side of Uraraka.

They all lined up at the entrance of the trail, giving class B a chance to set up and plan for a few minutes before Pixie-Bob announced. "Okay! Todoroki and Bakugo, off you go!"

Bakugo scoffed before beginning to walk, followed by Todoroki who smiled over his shoulder at Izuku. Little did they know, their night of scares would be interrupted by a much scarier group then their rival class.

PovChange

Dabi looked out over the forest with a look of contempt as he planned the Vanguard Action team's first assignment. The intel they had received was good, the students had arrived as they had planned, and were tired from training during the day. Tomura had warned them that the students were stronger then they had appeared, smarter as well, after the USJ incident. He heard somebody fussing behind him and sighed, not bothering to turn his head he said. "What is it Toga?"

The schoolgirl themed villain stomped her foot petulantly as she tried to pull off the mask. "This 'aint cute at all! How am I supposed to make new friends like this!? And what if I feel like a bit of smoochin' on one of them!? This sucks!"

Dabi rubbed his forehead, trying to stave off the headache he could feel coming. "Look Toga, you didn't put in your request fast enough so Sensei wasn't able to finish it in time. Just focus on the mission, grab Bakugo and get out while you get some blood from a U.A student."

Toga fake sighed and fell to the floor, landing on her behind as she looked around at the other villains gathered. Today was supposed to be her big day, find some new friends, maybe even a boyfriend, drink some blood and maybe hurt some people. It had all started to go bad when her favourite knife, Knifeington, was all dirty from the last kill. Then it got worse when she didn't even have her cute mask with the unicorn on it that she had painstakingly created with a packet of crayons she took from a pre-school. Oh well, maybe her luck would turn around and she'd find that cutie from the Sports Festival, the one who hurt himself with his quirk. Now that would be a good boyfriend…

Dabi spoke up again. "Okay everyone, let's get moving. The first operation of the League of Villains: Vanguard Action Squad begins now!"

They all sounded off before making their way to their respective locations. Toga leaped down from the cliffside and into one of the trees before falling to the ground. Quickly getting her bearings she ran towards the trail where the little heroes would be doing their little walk. Once she got closer she heard the sirens wail from the building she had seen from the cliff and smirked, showtime…

Povchange

Izuku watched in horror as Pixie-bob's face was rammed into the ground by the massive iron rod. The rest of the class had already begun their trek into the forest when he noticed the smoke coming from the distance, and that's when everything went to shit. Aizawa had returned to the HQ with Mandalay's nephew, along with the people who were doing their remedial lessons, leaving Izuku, Mandalay and Tora against the two villains in the clearing. Izuku called out to the lizard-person. "What are you doing here!?"

He seemed to smirk as he pulled the massive bundle of blades from his back. "That would be telling wouldn't it? Lord Stain followed the League of Villains, and so shall I!"

Izuku's eyes widened as he began to think of possible strategies against them. Tora was circling the massive woman with the iron rod while Mandalay was desperately looking for a way to get to Pixie-bob. The whole situation screamed of danger for the students, and Izuku's first call was to ask Mandalay quietly. "Give the student's permission to fight."

She turned her head slightly to look at him questioningly, before noticing his eyes. Those weren't the eyes of a child looking to prove himself for the sake of bravado, those were the eyes of someone worried for his friends. She nodded and Izuku felt the message ring through his mind. "Attention students! Villains have infiltrated the forest and are hostile. You have permission to use your quirks in self-defence and to get back to the base. Do not attempt to seek them out. I repeat, do not seek them out!"

With the message out Izuku began to look at the situation again. Vlad-King and Aizawa were with Kota and the others but knowing Sensei he would be on the front-lines soon enough. Ragdoll was alone, maybe with a couple students, but she had admitted she wasn't able to fight well. From the looks of it the forest fire and the gas circling the forest was supposed to coral them away from the clearing. Taking a deep breath Izuku hoped that Mandalay would be able to capitalise on the distraction and followed Bakugo's example. "Stain? You mean the idiot who was beaten by a couple of recruits? Ha! His ideals are just as weak as him! Now why don't you go running with your tail between your legs like he did?"

The Lizard-man started to visibly shake in anger, his eyes glossing over as he seemed to reach a boiling point. Crying out in rage he charged at Izuku, holding the bat over his head as he began to swing down at him. Izuku dodged to the right as Mandalay tackled him from the side, grabbed his arm and twisted his wrist, making him drop the massive bat. Tora used the show as an opening to jump at the woman with the rod, using his plia-body quiek to kick the hand holding the iron rod while grabbing Pixie-bob at the same time.

Izuku sighed in relief, seeing that the Lizard villain was subdued without too much struggle as Mandalay promptly broke his wrists, causing him to cry out in pain. Izuku turned his attention to the woman who was hurriedly reaching for the iron rod with Tora being focused on Pixie-bob to focus on her. Taking matters into his own hands Izuku activated One for All: Full Cowling and barrelled into her, taking the villain down to the ground with him as the rod fell to the ground a couple feet away from them. A fist came down onto his head, causing him to grunt in pain but refused to relinquish his hold on her.

Tora came to his rescue after a small struggle, grabbing one, then two arms and holding them down to allow Izuku to get up and off of her. She kicked and thrashed for a moment before Tora could get a proper hold on her, breaking her arms to stop her from fighting. Izuku was quite shocked at the brutal displays from the two, evidently showing it on his face before Mandalay called out. "A lesson in subduing an opponent Midoriya. If you don't have anything to restrain them with, break their arms and legs. They'll heal in prison, and we don't need to worry about them attacking us again."

Izuku guessed he could see the reasoning as he shook off the feeling. At that point Aizawa came through the treeline, singed and looking more dishevelled than usual. He sighed in relief at seeing Izuku alright before asking Mandalay hurriedly. "Where are the students!?"

She pointed her head in the direction of trail and said. "These are two of the villains subdued, but we don't know how many there are. Speaking of which…"

Mandalay turned back to the Lizard-Person under her. "You, how many are there?"

He made a show of defiance by turning his head away from her, that was until she dug her claws into his broken shoulder blade. "I'll ask again, how many of you are there and what are you doing here?"

The struggle continued for a little bit, with Mandalay putting more strain on the lizard and him slowly crumbling before he cried out. "Ten! There's ten of us! We were supposed to look for a Bakugo Katsuki brat!"

Izuku's heart stopped the moment he heard the name of their target. Kachan was being kidnapped? Why… Oh, the Sports Festival. It kinda made sense that they would try to convert one of the training heroes, it would be the ultimate demoraliser for the public to see that the future heroes could be corrupted. Shaking himself he quickly activated One For All and ran out towards the trail, the sounds of Aizawa and Mandalay calling him back landing on deaf ears.

About five minutes passed before Izuku found someone else, Tsuyu and Uraraka were limping back the way he had come from. Tsuyu noticed him and smiled in relief. "Izuku! What are you doing out here? Mandalay-Sama told us to head back to them."

Izuku checked them over quickly for injuries, finding only a couple deep cuts and an odd puncture mark on Uraraka's leg he said. "Thank god you two are alright. Bakugo is being targeted by the villains, I need to help him get back safely. Did you run into any villains on the way? You look like you got into a fight."

Uraraka shivered and nodded, shifting her leg awkwardly. "Yhea, a crazy girl in a school outfit. Be careful Deku-kun, she's still around."

Izuku nodded and took off. Tsuyu and Uraraka had been moving for about 9 minutes, slowly making progress back, when they saw someone else approaching, Mr Aizawa. He sighed in relief at seeing the two and said. "Uraraka, Asui, good to see your okay. Where did Midoriya head off to?"

Tsu pointed in the direction the greenette had gone and said. "Sir, there's another villain around here. Be careful Kero."

Aizawa nodded and followed after Izuku, little did he know that the young student was already in the middle of a very peculiar situation.

Povchange

Izuku honestly didn't know how he had ended up on top of the blond haired girl, he really didn't. One moment he was running through the woods, looking for his childhood frenemy, and the next he had tripped over a root and fell on top of her. He didn't recognise her from Class-B, certainly not Class-A, leaving the only other option for her to be the villain Uraraka was talking about. The girl in question didn't say anything, just smiled up to the boy with her arms pinned down by him. Seeing that she wasn't going to speak Izuku said with ragged breath. "W-Who are you?"

The girl shifted under him, causing him to collapse down onto her. Their faces were mere centimeters apart by that point, and she said. "Hi there! I'm Himiko Toga, but you can call me Toga. I'm here to take someone's blood, so that's what I'm here to do!"

Izuku blushed profusely as she wiggled under him, inadvertently causing him to begin to stir. "P-Please stop doing that."

She made a small 'hmm?' noise before seemingly realising what she was doing to him. Her blush darkened and she said huskily. "Doing what, Izuku-Kun?"

He was close to begging her to stop, his pride beginning to get noticeable to the girl. "T-That! H-How about I give you some blood and you can leave?"

That made her stop wiggling. Not the most thought out plan by Izuku, giving the villain what she wanted, but he was getting desperate. Toga took it a whole other way however. "Y-you would help me, a villain? Why?"

Izuku tried to put some distance between their faces as he turned his head and said. "Y-you seem like you really need it. I guess it has something to do with your quirk. Quirk Insanity is a recognised mental health problem but it was only categorised a couple years, I guess you suffer from it considering you need blood and you are quite… colourful. If I had to wager a guess you couldn't get the blood you needed as a child, causing you to have to take it from people."

He seemed to flinch as if expecting her to take offence to his statement, but no blow came. He turned his head to see her looking at him with shocked eyes, a slack-jawed expression. "P-Please, I just need a little blood…"

Izuku realised that this wasn't the girl he had fallen over on. Her eyes were noticeably different then before, not to mention she had stopped struggling. Slowly getting up, keeping an eye on her every move, Izuku offered her his wrist hesitantly. "Here, you can have some."

Toga's eyes seemed to glimmer with craziness for a moment before she latched onto his wrist with her teeth, piercing the skin and causing him to gasp in pain. She began to drink the blood straight out of his wrist. The feeling was quite odd for Izuku. Eventually they had worked their way into a semi comfortable position, with Toga latched onto his wrist and sitting in his lap as he oddly stroked her hair. This continued for about 2 minutes before she released her grasp, smacking her lips at the tasty meal. Looking up at him she murmured out. "T-Thanks, nobody's ever actually offered me blood before..."

Izuku nodded, feeling slightly sleepy after the draining. "S-Sure. Will you stop attacking us then? I-If you do I'll let you have more blood."

She looked at him in shock before grinning, the red lining her mouth looking oddly cute on her as she said. "I'll do ya one better."

It was at that moment when Aizawa burst out from the treeline towards them, his eyes glaring with red light at the sight of Toga. "Midoriya, who the hell is this!?"

Toga got up from Izuku's lap and held her wrists out to him. "Don't worry bossman, Izuku-Kun's managed to get lil' ol' me to switch sides, wave the white flag ect. He's a white in shining armour he is, cute as well, regular Prince Charming."

Izuku blushed at her compliment as he stood up as well. "S-Sir, Toga was just in the League to get blood for her quirk. She seems to suffer from Quirk Insanity, so I just gave her some blood and now she's calm."

Toga licked her lips as Aizawa took out some spare cloth from his pockets, wrapping it around Toga's wrists and watching as it hardened immediately like his scarf. "Quirk Insanity… I've seen it before, a lot of criminal rings are based around getting victims their fixes. We will see about getting you some help Ms…"

She leaned into Izuku's side as she said. "The name's Himiko Toga, and cutie here has already promised that he would be able to get me more of his blood so don't worry 'bout that. Anyways, want to know my old accomplices devious plans?"

Aizawa's eyes widened at her as she said, still leaning on the embarrassed Izuku. "What? My boyfriend's classmates seem pretty cute, don't want their pretty little faces getting mutilated at all."

Izuku began to stammer out explanations before Aizawa sighed and pulled her off of Izuku. "Okay, take us to your meeting point. Midoriya, you and I are going to ambush them when they return there with Bakugo. If they don't, we high-tail it out of there. Himiko, you are going to be coming with us until we find a way to get you back to the compound. Honestly this is the worst goddamn plan but it's the only one we have at the moment."

They both nodded and Toga began to lead them towards the meeting point. Eventually Toga fell silent, motioning for the other two to do so as well. They crouched down, and as Toga moved the branch they saw Dabi and Twice standing there, Dabi looking bored while Twice was rambling on. Izuku looked at Aizawa and saw that he was also looking at him. He spoke to Izuku with the quietest whisper he could muster. "Okay, I'll disable their quirks and we hit them. You take the fire-maker, I'll take out the other one. Go for the one hit knockout."

Izuku nodded and Aizawa held up three fingers. Izuku charged up One for All and waited for his teacher to count down to nothing, and then they both rushed them. Dabi looked up in shock, brought his arm up by reflex and tried to shoot fire to no avail. Izuku brought up his fist with a grin and landed a solid uppercut, taking the villain over him and slamming into the ground. Getting onto his back he looked over and saw that Aizawa was already in the process of tying up his villain. Once he was done he went over to Izuku and Dabi and did the same thing. Wiping his brow of sweat Aizawa looked over to where Toga was hiding and called out. "Himiko, you can come out now."

He didn't get a response from the girl, instead receiving the chuckle of a voice much deeper then the girls. The bush fell away to reveal a massive man, a mask covering his face and a cloak over his body. In his hand he held the neck of a struggling Toga, who was thrashing around in his grip. "Sup."

Aizawa was instantly alert again, Izuku following suit as he looked at Toga with panicked eyes. She seemed to be crying out for help from his grasp, but her windpipe was too constricted to even breath. The tall man began to chuckle again. "So, you managed to get this little whore to change sides eh? Not too difficult, she is quite easy to please. Well, I'm supposed to be looking for this Bakugo kid but honestly, this seems like a lot more fun. I've already managed to capture that cat bitch, so the big man won't be too angry if I miss out on a little brat. Anyways, where was I? Oh yhea, snapping this bitch's neck for betraying us."

As his grip tightened, a blast of blue light came from the forest. The beam collided with the insane man's back, causing him to cry out in pain and drop Toga who fell to the floor coughing and spluttering. Aizawa took the opportunity to activate his quirk, calling out to Izuku. "Midoriya, together!"

Izuku stammered out a 'Yes Sir!' before going his teacher in the assault. Without his quirk, and under the dual assault from One for All and a skilled martial artist along with the constant barrage of lasers coming from the forest, it didn't take long for the giant to topple over and fall unconscious.

Once they had made sure he was tied up, Izuku hurriedly knelt down to check on Toga. Her sputtering had stopped, but she was still awake in his arms, barely awake granted. Sighing in relief Izuku looked up to see Aoyama standing there, holding his stomach in pain as he desperately tried to keep his French persona up. "Monsieur Midoriya, you truly are a paragon of romance. Ca va?"

Izuku smiled up at him as he said. "I'm good … My friend. Are you alright? Where are the others?"

He seemed to deflate as he said. "Alas, the sacrifice of my comrade was what allowed me to be here. Monsieur Shoji was injured in a fight, allowing me to escape with my life. Truly, he is a shining light."

Izuku gritted his teeth as he said. "Oh no… Okay, so we took down two at the clearing, Toga-Chan is here with us, two are over there and we just took out this guy. That leaves… 4 of them still active."

Aizawa cut into their conversation. "I don't think so. That cloud of smoke has just disappeared, I think some students managed to take them down. That leaves just three of them."

At that moment Toga coughed and sat up in Izuku's arms, the boy rubbing her back worriedly. "I-I know what the other three are if ya interested teach. Ones one of those Nomu things that nearly got All Might, others Mr C who can turn anybody into a travel sized version of himself an' the other ones a proper creep, uses his teeth as big pointy spears. Crazy, right Izu?"

After a couple more minutes of planning, and setting up another ambush, they saw someone else enter the clearing. Mezo and Mina came rushing through the trees in a panic, followed by Todoroki and Bakugo. Aizawa thanked his lucky stars as he came walking out into the clearing to meet them. "You four! What are you running from?"

Mina dropped to her knees in front of him, gasping for breath. "I-It's Tokoyami sir! His quirk's gone crazy!"

Izuku left Toga's side for a moment as he rushed out to greet Todoroki. "Todoroki-San, thank god you're alright!"

The boy smiled at Izuku as they both met each other's fist with their own. "Good to see you too. What's going on here? Do we know why they're here?"

They heard a spluttering from the ground, and both turned to see Dabi looking up at Todoroki with a look of contempt. Todoroki noticed this and gasped, before smlling. "I found you, Faker!"

Dabi scoffed as he got up onto his knees. "Faker? I think your the fake fire user around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha! You're not even good enough to be my fake."

Todoroki didn't get a chance to respond as Izuku held him back, while Bakugo knocked Dabi out again. The Half and Half user took a moment to cool down before asking Izuku again. "So, what are they after?"

Izuku looked worriedly over at Bakugo as he said. "Yeah... They're after Bakugo."

The blond seemed to be caught off guard by that statement, nearly tripping over himself as he said. "M-Me?"

They heard a crashing from the forest, and Mina shrieked before hiding behind Izuku, not so subtly rubbing up against him as she said. "He's coming, save me Midori!"

Izuku sighed, pushing her off himself before turning to Bakugo and saying. "Kachan, did you try using your explosions to generate light?"

Bakugo was about to retort that yes, he had tried it, before realising that he hadn't. Muttering out a 'Shut the fuck up Deku' he turned around to where the crashes were coming from and began to spark up his palms. The moment he saw the massive monster above the treeline he began to fire explosions at it, focused on generating as much light as possible with each. Dark Shadow roared in agony, eventually becoming nothing more than a quivering mess of a bird as Tokoyami stumbled into the clearing, control reasserted. "Thank you, Bakugo-San, your quick thinking managed to tame the beast. Truly, your battle sense is unmatched."

Todoroki lifted a finger and was about to speak up before Izuku placed a hand on his shoulder, shaking his head solemnly. The Half and Half user shrugged before relinquishing, putting his finger down. Aizawa smirked over at them, the dryness of his eyes becoming apparent as he began to rub them. "Okay, that's one problem sorted. Now we just need to deal with the villains…"

Todoroki spoke up and said. "We managed to knock out one behind us, he was in a straight jacket and used his teeth to attack, scary shit."

Izuku made the observation that. "So two more villains remaining, a Nomu and this Mr C guy… And that other villain said he had managed to capture Ragdoll."

Izuku flinched when he said that out loud as he remembered her invite for him to do a sleepover tonight. No doubt she was going to have a bad time with the villains, looks like the pros will have to move fast. Aizawa spoke up again as he said. "I don't think so. They've been beaten back this much, I think they'll just cut their losses at this point. Let's go and round up the students and make sure they're okay.

While they were strategising, they didn't notice that very villain looking at them from a cliff top in the distance. 'Well, this was less successful then I had in mind at the start of the night. Well, at least I managed to capture that young lad with the purple balled hair, they will surely be disheartened when they learn that he is gone.'

AN: So close to being released on time, but here it is. Expect a weekly schedule for these releases because Elite Dangerous is too damn addicting. Next week, Kamino Ward, Mineta fucking with the LoV and the abridged version of the All For One/One for All slamdown. See ya you fuckin nerds.